Dead Reckoning: Tales of the Great Explorers 1800-1900Helen Whybrow W. W. Norton & Company, 2005 - 566 sidor There are few thrills as exciting as weather at its worst. We often hear on the news that the day was the hottest, coldest, wettest, or snowiest on record. Is the climate really becoming more extreme as a result of global warming? The facts are in this book. Extensively illustrated with colour photographs of some of the most extreme weather ever captured on camera, more than fifty colour maps, and tables of weather records for over three hundred U.S. cities, this book is both an entertainment and an indispensable reference. Also included are historical examples of some of the more bizarre weather events observed: heat bursts, electrified dust storms, snow rollers, pink snowstorms, luminous tornadoes, falls of fish and toads, ball lightning, super bolts, and other strange meteorological events. Here's the must-have book for Weather Channel and Guinness Book of World Records fans. |
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Acknowledgments | 13 |
JOHN WESLEY POWELL | 39 |
CLARENCE KING | 62 |
FRIDTJOF NANSEN | 86 |
GEORGE WALLACE MELVILLE | 112 |
GEORGE KENNAN | 125 |
CHARLES DARWIN | 145 |
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE | 159 |
ELIZABETH LE BLOND | 311 |
MARK TWAIN SAMUEL L CLEMENS | 335 |
FILIPPO DE FILIPPI | 365 |
CAPTAIN JOHN CLAUS VOSS | 378 |
LIFELONG QUESTS | 403 |
A HENRY SAVAGE LANDOR | 419 |
JOHN MUIR | 441 |
HENRY DAVID THOREAU | 455 |
HENRY MORTON STANLEY | 178 |
WILLIAM JOHN WILLS | 196 |
PERSONAL ODYSSEYS | 217 |
RICHARD HENRY DANA | 241 |
FRANK THOMAS BULLEN | 264 |
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON | 278 |
MRS ALFRED MARY MUMMERY | 291 |
ISABELLA BIRD | 476 |
MARY KINGSLEY | 495 |
STEPHENS | 534 |
SVEN HEDIN | 548 |
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Dead Reckoning: Great Adventure Writing from the Golden Age of Exploration ... Helen Whybrow Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 2003 |
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